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Oh - between lion or tiger? Depends on the gender of the lion. You'd need a female lion to make it a fair fight. Even then, the tiger's predilection for lone hunting would, IMO, give it a instinctual advantage in a one-on-one.

This thread is very Roman, but I much prefer the history of the daily life, rather than betting on their bloodsports.

Tigers, on average, grow larger and stronger than lions. However, among mammals, they are hardly the most powerful pound-for-pound. And nowhere near the meanest. The Tasmanian Devil and the wolverine are some of the fiercest critters around (again, speaking of mammals!), and are quite fearless.

And what enemies does the tiger have? Alligators, perhaps? Or are you talking about the weird shaped bipeds?

Actually, the tiger is the top predator in its range as well. It is comparable to the lion in that respect. Both are masters of their domains.

The lion shouldn't be considered a "king of the jungle" really. It lives on Savannah plains and rarely actually travels through jungles. That is why its fur is tawny brown to camouflage it against the dry plains grass.

The tiger does live in the jungle and I am sure in India and Southeast Asia it is considered to be the king of the jungle. Its coloring is designed to hide it in the jungle as well.

Actually, the tiger is the top predator in its range as well. It is comparable to the lion in that respect. Both are masters of their domains.

The lion shouldn't be considered a "king of the jungle" really. It lives on Savannah plains and rarely actually travels through jungles. That is why its fur is tawny brown to camouflage it against the dry plains grass.

The tiger does live in the jungle and I am sure in India and Southeast Asia it is considered to be the king of the jungle. Its coloring is designed to hide it in the jungle as well.

Indeed they are. Most magnificent animal, they are. Told you I am biased.

The ant can lift 250 times its weight. This is more than any mammal will ever be able to accomplish. We are just lucky they are as small as they are or they would be a pretty dominant species.

Interestingly, they wouldn't be as dominant if they were bigger. I remember studying this some time ago. From a very good post here:

The reason that ants can lift so much is because body size (in terms of volume, which is closely related to mass) increases as a cube of length- while the cross sectional area of muscles increases as the square of length. So, as the size of an organism increases, its mass increases at a much greater rate than the cross-sectional area of its muscles, so those muscles have proportionately more mass to lift.

The other reason that they wouldn't be dominant is somewhat related. Ever wonder why there are no really huge insects (say the size of horses)? As stated above, body size increases as a cube of length. And put simply, an animal with an exoskeleton (such as an insect) cannot grow too big as said exoskeleton would be far too heavy to carry around.